Smartest kids in the world Simon & schuster (Simon & Schuster)

How do countries create smarter kids? What is it like to be a child in the worlds new education superpowers? Ripley gets well beneath the glossy surfaces of these foreign cultures and manages to make our own culture look newly strange...The question is whether the startling perspective provided aby this masterly book can also generate the will to make changes (The New York Times Book Review).